Members of the the Agri-Environment Action work on the following issues:

• Support to Rural Development policy for the Agricultural Land Management specifically in the area of agri-environmental indicators.
  
  
  
• Support to Rural Development policy in the area of High Nature Value Farmlands, Bio-fuel and Less Favoured Areas (LFA) through land use modelling, impact assessment and methodological developments.
  
  Identification of High Nature Value farmland
  
  Non-mountainous areas with natural constraints (ex Less Favoured Areas (LFA) - "Intermediate areas")
  The Joint Research Centre is supporting the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development for the review of the Less Favoured Areas scheme (intermediate areas).
  
  More information on JRC support to LFA scheme here.
  
  Follow this link to European Commission Directorate General Agriculture and Rural Development, LFA scheme: http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/rurdev/lfa/index_en.htm
  
  
• Analysis and support to policy concerning the link between agricultural land management and pressures on water.